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Author	vinay.sajip
Recipients	alexis, ceder, eric.araujo, fdrake, guyrozendorn, higery, mhammond, tarek, tim.golden, vinay.sajip
Date	2011-10-24.17:46:39
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> We’ll have to think about the shebang munging and decide if we keep it. I think > recommending that people use “/usr/bin/env python” (or python3) and not doing > anything to the shebang may be the best thing. What about Windows support? Of course there is PEP 397 which brings shebang-line functionality to Windows, but that PEP has not yet been finalised. Without the existing shebang functionality, IMO there will be problems for Windows users with the “/usr/bin/env python” approach you suggest.

> We’ll have to think about the shebang munging and decide if we keep it.  I think 

> recommending that people use “/usr/bin/env python” (or python3) and not doing 
> anything to the shebang may be the best thing.

What about Windows support? Of course there is PEP 397 which brings shebang-line functionality to Windows, but that PEP has not yet been finalised. Without the existing shebang functionality, IMO there will be problems for Windows users with the “/usr/bin/env python” approach you suggest.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-10-24 17:46:41	vinay.sajip	set	recipients: + vinay.sajip, mhammond, fdrake, ceder, tim.golden, tarek, eric.araujo, alexis, higery, guyrozendorn
2011-10-24 17:46:39	vinay.sajip	link	issue12394 messages
2011-10-24 17:46:39	vinay.sajip	create